Word: probed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mondale subcommittee probe last week of the Epilepsy Foundation of America revealed that straightforward aid to the needy is far from a certainty. Mondale's investigators found that more than half of the $4 million the E.F.A. spent last year went to meet fund-raising and administrative costs. The Senator fears that similar slipshod management may be going on in other children's charities. To correct such abuse, he thinks it may become necessary to require charitable groups to adopt uniform accounting procedures. Other possible strictures: limit the amount they spend on fund-raising promotions and include brief...
...supporter, wondered if he did not deserve better treatment than he was getting at the hands of the IRS. According to a 1971 memo from Caulfield to Dean, the IRS had demanded back taxes of $251,116 from Wayne for the years 1964 through 1966. As part of his probe, Caulfield examined the records of audits by the IRS of returns filed by a cross section of politicians and show-business personalities, both for and against Nixon. They included Richard Boone, Jerry Lewis, Peter Lawford, Fred MacMurray, Lucille Ball, Ronald Reagan, Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. All had been...
...whom the committee calls as it attempts to determine what charges, if any, to lodge against the President. Disputing St. Clair's argument, Rodino contended that his committee's investigation is not a trial or an adversary proceeding; it is akin to a fact-finding grand jury probe in which potential defendants are not represented by counsel because no one has yet been charged. Yet Republicans on the committee had a point in noting that fairness would be better perceived by the public if St. Clair was allowed to quiz witnesses. In at least four of the dozen...
...Nixon campaign. He testified about attending a meeting with Vesco on March 8, 1972, in Stans' Washington office. According to Richardson, Vesco told Stans that he wanted to make a donation to the Nixon campaign but that he had a problem -the SEC investigation. Vesco claimed that the probe was really an SEC vendetta against him and his company...
...tracked far beyond the research labs where they were first detected. Today, ultrasonics, otherwise known as the science of noiseless sound, has become one of the more versatile tools of technology. Vibrating at roughly 18,000 or more cycles per second, quiet bursts of ultrasonic energy can probe the ocean depths, clean teeth, cut through steel, even look for brain damage. In their latest incarnation, ultrasonic waves are being put to work in a novel sewage-treatment system...